Ephesians 5:22-23,25-26,32
Ephesians 5:22-23 New Living Translation (NLT)
For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the church.
Ephesians 5:25-26 New Living Translation (NLT)
For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word.
Ephesians 5:32 New Living Translation (NLT)
This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one.
Ephesians 5:22-24 The Message (MSG)
Wives, understand and support your husbands in ways that show your support for Christ. The husband provides leadership to his wife the way Christ does to his church, not by domineering but by cherishing. So just as the church submits to Christ as he exercises such leadership, wives should likewise submit to their husbands.
Ephesians 5:25-28-25-28 The Message (MSG)
Husbands, go all out in your love for your wives, exactly as Christ did for the church—a love marked by giving, not getting. Christ’s love makes the church whole. His words evoke her beauty. Everything he does and says is designed to bring the best out of her, dressing her in dazzling white silk, radiant with holiness. And that is how husbands ought to love their wives. They’re really doing themselves a favor—since they’re already “one” in marriage.
Ephesians 5:29-33 The Message (MSG)
No one abuses his own body, does he? No, he feeds and pampers it. That’s how Christ treats us, the church, since we are part of his body. And this is why a man leaves father and mother and cherishes his wife. No longer two, they become “one flesh.” This is a huge mystery, and I don’t pretend to understand it all. What is clearest to me is the way Christ treats the church. And this provides a good picture of how each husband is to treat his wife, loving himself in loving her, and how each wife is to honor her husband.
Ephesians 5:22-23 King James Version (KJV)
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
Ephesians 5:25-26 King James Version (KJV)
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word
Ephesians 5:32 King James Version (KJV)
This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Ephesians 5:22-23 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body.
Ephesians 5:25-26 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word
Ephesians 5:32 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.
Ephesians 5:22-23 New Century Version (NCV)
Wives, yield to your husbands, as you do to the Lord, because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church. And he is the Savior of the body, which is the church.
Ephesians 5:25-26 New Century Version (NCV)
Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself for it to make it belong to God. Christ used the word to make the church clean by washing it with water.
Ephesians 5:32 New Century Version (NCV)
That secret is very important—I am talking about Christ and the church.
Ephesians 5:22-23 American Standard Version (ASV)
Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.
Ephesians 5:25-26 American Standard Version (ASV)
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word
Ephesians 5:32 American Standard Version (ASV)
This mystery is great: but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church.
Ephesians 5:22-23 New International Version (NIV)
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.
Ephesians 5:25-26 New International Version (NIV)
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word
Ephesians 5:32 New International Version (NIV)
This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church.
Ephesians 5:22-23 New King James Version (NKJV)
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.
Ephesians 5:25-26 New King James Version (NKJV)
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word
Ephesians 5:32 New King James Version (NKJV)
This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Ephesians 5:22-23 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as [a service] to the Lord. For the husband is head of the wife, as Christ is head of the church, Himself being the Savior of the body.
Ephesians 5:25-26 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Husbands, love your wives [seek the highest good for her and surround her with a caring, unselfish love], just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify the church, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word [of God]
Ephesians 5:32 Amplified Bible (AMP)
This mystery [of two becoming one] is great; but I am speaking with reference to [the relationship of] Christ and the church.
Ephesians 5:22-23 The Passion Translation (TPT)
For wives, this means being devoted to your husbands like you are tenderly devoted to our Lord, for the husband provides leadership for the wife, just as Christ provides leadership for his church, as the Savior and Reviver of the body.
Ephesians 5:25-26 The Passion Translation (TPT)
And to the husbands, you are to demonstrate love for your wives with the same tender devotion that Christ demonstrated to us, his bride. For he died for us, sacrificing himself to make us holy and pure, cleansing us through the showering of the pure water of the Word of God.
Ephesians 5:32 The Passion Translation (TPT)
Marriage is the beautiful design of the Almighty, a great mystery of Christ and his church.
Ephesians 5:22-23 English Standard Version 2016 (ESV)
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.